Studying the Implementation Rate of Succession Planning System and Determining its Relationship with Employees’ Job Satisfactions in Economic and Financial Affairs Organization of Kerman

Subject Areas : Business Management

hamid taboli ¹ (Assistant Professor, Payame Noor University)
Somayeh Nobari ² (Master of Business Administration, Islamic Azad University, East Azarbaijan Research and Research Center, Young and Elite Research Club, Tabriz, Iran)
amin nikpour ³ (Ph.D. Student, Department of Management, Kerman Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran)
Rahele Chamani Fard ⁴ (Ph.D. Student, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Science and Research Branch, Management Department, Kerman, Iran)

Received: 2013-04-09 Accepted : 2013-10-20 Published : 2014-05-22

Keywords: Job satisfaction, organizational productivity, Employing Talented People, Existing Resource Assessment, Training and Promotion,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study is studying the implementation rate of succession planning system and determining its relationship with employees’ job satisfaction in Economic and Financial Affairs Organization of Kerman. The research is of correlation and descriptive type that has been done by survey method. The statistical population included all the employees of the Economic and Financial Affairs Organization of Kerman and according to Morgan table, a sample of 240 persons has been chosen. The inferential and descriptive statistics method (correlation test of Pearson) has been used in order to analyze the data and the data collection instruments were the questionnaires of the implementation of succession planning system and job satisfaction. The findings of the research show that there is a meaningful relationship between the implementation of succession planning system and its components (employing talented people, existing resource assessment, training and promoting talented people) and job satisfaction.                                         

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